There will be a change behind the bench in Laval next season. On Thursday, the Seattle Kraken announced that Pascal Vincent, previously the head coach of the Rocket, has joined the Kraken as an assistant coach.
Earlier this month, a pair of Habs received some end-of-season honours with Nick Suzuki and Cole Caufield taking home trophies. Now, one of their prospects has received an end-of-season award with Adam Engstrom being named to the AHL 2025-26 Top Prospects Team.
It’s not too often that the Habs have enough prospects playing in May to do this piece. But there were just enough who played deep into the playoffs or internationally to allow us to cover the best of the rest who were still playing.
Nick Suzuki wasn’t the only award winner from the Habs on Friday. The NHL announced that Cole Caufield has won the 2026 Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.
All season long, there was plenty of speculation about Nick Suzuki being a Selke Trophy contender. That proved to be quite accurate as on Friday, the NHL announced that he is this year’s winner of the award in a landslide vote.
The Habs had a solid playoff run overall, adding 19 games to their 2025-26, hardly an insignificant amount. What was learned through those three rounds? Our writers provide their playoff takeaways.
After a long playoff run came to an end last week, Monday was a day for exit interviews for both Montreal’s management team and most of the players. Here are some of the key takeaways from the day.
After splitting the first two games of the Eastern Conference Final, the fatigue finally caught up with the Habs. They weren’t able to muster up much against the Hurricanes the rest of the way, as they dropped the final three games of the series to end their playoff run.
Let me start this by saying that no matter what adjustments could have been made, Carolina was winning this series. But a surprising level of hubris from Martin St. Louis didn’t help Montreal’s chances.
There was some good news for one of Montreal’s top prospects on Thursday. The KHL announced that Alexander Zharovsky was named Rookie of the Year for the 2025-26 season.